Storage Foundation 8.0 Quick Recovery Solutions Guide for Microsoft Exchange - Windows
- Introducing Quick Recovery for Microsoft Exchange
- Planning a Quick Recovery snapshot solution for Exchange
- System requirements
- Methods of implementing Quick Recovery snapshots
- Planning your Quick Recovery solution
- Backup types for snapshot sets
- About logs
- Recommendations and best practices
- Configuring Exchange for Quick Recovery snapshots
- Implementing Exchange snapshot sets with the configuration wizard
- About the Quick Recovery Configuration Wizard
- Tasks for implementing snapshot sets with the configuration wizard
- Reviewing the prerequisites
- Scheduling Exchange snapshot sets
- System Selection panel details
- Instance Selection panel details
- Mount Details panel details
- Synchronizing Schedules panel details
- Template Selection panel details
- Number of Snapshot Sets panel details
- Snapshot Volume Assignment panel details
- Snapshot Schedule panel details
- Specifying snapshot schedule details
- Summary panel details
- Template Implementation panel
- Administering or troubleshooting scheduled snapshots
- Scheduling or creating an individual snapshot set for Exchange
- Maintaining or troubleshooting snapshots
- Recovering Exchange mailbox databases
- About recovery using Quick Recovery snapshots
- Tasks for recovery using Quick Recovery snapshots
- Prerequisites for recovery
- Recovery using an Exchange 2010 passive copy snapshot in a Database Availability Group (DAG)
- Recovery for Exchange 2010 using the VSS Restore Wizard
- Recovery for Exchange 2010 using the vxsnap utility
- Post-recovery steps
- Recovering after hardware failure
- About recovery after hardware failure
- Tasks for recovering after hardware failure
- Reviewing the prerequisites
- Reviewing the sample configuration for Exchange 2010
- Scenario I: Database and transaction logs volumes are missing
- Identifying the missing volumes (Scenario I)
- Deleting missing volumes from Storage Foundation
- Replacing hardware and adding disks to the dynamic disk group
- Changing the drive letter or mount points of the snapshot volumes
- Restoring the Exchange 2010 mailbox database to the point in time
- Refreshing the snapshot set (Scenario I)
- Scenario II: Database volumes missing, transaction logs are available
- Identifying the missing volumes (Scenario II)
- Deleting missing volumes from Storage Foundation
- Replacing hardware and adding disks to the dynamic disk group
- Changing the drive letter or mount points of the snapshot volumes
- Restoring the Exchange 2010 mailbox database to the point in time
- Recovering the Exchange 2010 mailbox database to the point of failure
- Refreshing the snapshot set (Scenario II)
- Refreshing the snapshot set
- Refreshing the snapshot set on the current disks
- Moving the production volumes to different disks and refreshing the snapshot set
- Reattaching healthy snapshot volumes
- Clearing the snapshot association for volumes whose drive letters or mount points were reassigned
- Adding mirrors to volumes whose drive letters or mount points were reassigned
- Creating snapshot mirrors of volumes whose drive letters or mount points were reassigned
- Creating the new snapshot set
- Vxsnap utility command line reference for Exchange
Scheduling Exchange snapshot sets
You schedule and create snapshot sets using the Quick Recovery Configuration Wizard. You can also use the wizard to modify or delete existing schedules or to import a schedule template.
See About the Quick Recovery Configuration Wizard .
Make sure that you meet the prerequisites before you begin using the wizard.
See Reviewing the prerequisites.
Note:
You may use replication for an Exchange 2010 database availability group (DAG) You can schedule snapshots only for the active copy, not the passive copy.
To schedule snapshot sets
- Launch the Solutions Configuration Center (SCC).
- From the Solutions view in the SCC, click SFW Quick Recovery Configuration to launch the wizard.
- In the Welcome panel, review the information to ensure you meet the requirements and click Next.
- In the System Selection panel, specify the system that is running the application and click Next.
Ensure that the disk groups for the application are imported to the selected system.
- In the Instance Selection panel, make the following selections and click Next:
For Exchange 2010, select the system name of the Exchange mailbox server.
Select the components for which you want to configure the snapshot sets.
- If the Mount Details panel is displayed, a volume containing the schedule configuration files is not mounted. Mount the missing drive and click Refresh, then click Next.
- For existing schedules, the Synchronizing Schedules panel displays the status of schedule synchronization and cleanup. If schedule synchronization fails in a clustered environment, restart any cluster nodes that are down and then restart the wizard. Otherwise, click Next.
- In the Template Selection panel, choose whether to create a new template for Quick Recovery settings, modify existing template settings, or import a template. Then click Next.
- In the Number of Snapshot Sets panel, select how many sets of snapshots to create for each database. Then click Next.
- In the Snapshot Volume Assignment panel, expand the snapshot set and configure the settings. Repeat for any additional snapshot sets, and when you finish, click Next.
- In the Snapshot Schedule panel, specify one or more schedules for each snapshot set. Choose one of the following:
To specify a simple schedule, edit the default schedule settings shown on this panel. By default, the simple schedule takes effect on the current date and does not recur.
To specify a recurring schedule, a time window, a different run date, or other schedule details, click Edit, fill in the Edit Snapshot Schedule dialog box, and click OK.
See Specifying snapshot schedule details.
Expired schedules cannot be edited. Instead, delete the expired schedule and add a new one.
After you have specified a schedule for a snapshot set, choose from the following:
Edit schedules for any remaining snapshot sets
Click Add Schedules if you want to add a new schedule
Click Delete if you want to remove a schedule
When scheduling is complete for all snapshot sets, click Next.
- In the Summary panel, you can choose from the following:
Save settings to a template file for later reuse
Apply the settings without saving a template
Save the settings and then apply them
Applying the settings implements the configuration. If you have saved the settings to a template file and want to exit the wizard without applying the template, click Cancel.
- In the Template Implementation panel, wait until the wizard shows that Quick Recovery configuration is complete and click Next and then click Finish.